I generally agree with the sentiments, but I think Peggy buys into certain bits that are commonly accepted, yet whose basis is dubious.
ex:
1) Iraq....I'll just keep my peace there. Half the country sees it as an honorable necessity, the other half sees it as a scam.
2) Katrina: Again, this is a case of people not understanding federalism, or where the primary responsibilities lie. In that case, those with the most responsibility, at the state and local level, screwed up the greatest, and got off scott free, while those with the least responsibility, who screwed up the least, got all of the blame.
etc,etc, etc
While I too, have had my fill of Bush, this is going to be a very memetically unstable time, where there is going to be all sorts of misattributions and throwings out of babies with the bathwater.
For example, the last election turned primarily on conservative disenchantment with the GOP. While many on the left trumpet their triumph, they fail to understand that it was less a victory for them, as it was a defeat for the GOP, primarily do to drift from their core mission and inneptitude across the board.
As the Right turns their backs to GW in disgust, thus shattering the power of that unity, all sorts rush in to fill the vacuum, making all sorts of loud agenda driven noises that threatens to drown out the signal of the actual significance of the event.
The country is not turning Left.
The country has had enough of:
1) The GOP's ideological drift towards big government statism
2) Their inability to effectively stymy the agenda of the left and
3) Their inability to effectively carry off the bits they do get right.
